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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16
Oleomargarlne in New Jersey.

The advocates of oleomargarine have
insisted that all they longed for was an
opportunity for fair competition with
the American COW. 1t was a new and
valuable food product which they were
putting on the market, and it only
needed to be tested on its merits to COM
mend itself as palatable and wholesome.
For ten years artificial butter has been
manufactured in large quantities, but
this test has never been applied, for it
never has been retailed under its true
name or in its own color; and the report
of the New Jersey Dairy Commissioner
seems to show that no one wants to buy
it when informed of its real character
except keepers of inns and boarding
houses, and they feed it to people who
have no accurate knowledge of what
they are eating.
The effective clause of the New Jersey
law is that which compels the seller to
inform the consumer that it is not a
genuine but counterfeit butter that
he is buying, and the result of the en-
forcement of this obligation for few
months is complete disaster to the oleo-
margarine business in that State. Incl
dentally it is worth nothing that when
the administration of such law is in
trusted to vigorous hands it is not nee
essarily expensive. Indeed, it has been
almost self-sustaining in New Jersey, and
the question which obtrudes itself is,
why should not all adulterated food
products be dealt with after the same
fashion IN y. Tribune.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16
THE GREAT CONVENTION.
Mass Meeting at Yazoo City.

At the request of number of citizens,
Hon. G. ii. Williams, Mayor of Yazoo
City, issued call for m ass-meeting to be
held at the Court house on Monday, Feb
ruary l4th, to select delegates to represent
Yazoo County at the Dairymen, Lumber
men and Fruit Growers Convention, to
meet at Jackson, on February 18th, 18th
and 18th.
On motion of r. G.. Hudson, Esq,
Judge r. Bowman was called to the chair,
and }. q. Mcclure requested to act as Sec
rotary.
The following resolutions were intro
duced and carried:
ResoiUed, That the Chairman of this
meeting be authorized to select such num-
Der of delegates, he to be one of the num-
Der, as he may think proper, to represent
Y azoo County at the Convention, where
upon the Chairman appointed fifty dele
gates, representing every section of Yazoo
County.
RESOLVED, That the Jackson and Yazoo
City papers be requested to publish these
resolutionss
On motion the meeting adjourned, and
the delegates were sequested to meet at the
Lawrence House in J Jackson, on Wednes-
day morning at nine o'clock.
r. BOWMAN, Chm'n.
j. G. MCGUIRE, Secretary.
4azoo City, Feb. IA, 1886.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16
A Poor Substitute.

The material difference between the
Beck bill and the substitute of Senator
Hoar. which displaced it, is thus stated
by the St. Louis Republican:
The Beck bill prohibited Senator Of
Representative from being an attorney fol
a subsidized railroad in any case the sub
stitute simply prohibits a Senator or Rep
resentative from being an attorney for .
subsidized road in case in which the
government is on the other side.
The tenacity with which q majority
OF the Senate have clung to the right to
be paid enormous fees by the subsidized
railroad companies in the face of the
overwhelming public sentiment that
they cannot do so without exciting sus-
picion, is striking instance of the
decentralization of the times.
We undertake to say that if the prin-
ciple embodied in the Beck bin could be
submitted to the people By States. there
is not q State in the Union which would
not endorse it with practical unanimity
It il, to put it mildly, embarrassing
to Senator Or Representative to put
him in position whore his obligations
to his best paying clients would require
him to decide ! question ONE way, and
his obligations to the people, another.
Pooh Ba.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16
THE HEALTH OF MISSISSIPPI
The Testimony of Bishop Hugh
Miller Thompson.

To The GHrchman al have received q
number of letters of inquiry, in which
great stress is laid on the question of the
health of Mississippi. do not wonder at
this, although there is ground for wonder
at the persistent ignorance of any part of
our great country concerning any other
part.
Will you allow me to say, then, that by
| official Washington figures Mississippi is
just one-third healthier than New York
and Massachusetts; 25 per cent. healthier
| than Virginia or Indiana, and 20 per cent.
or 80 healthier than Illinois or Pennsyl-
vania.
Its death-rate is under thirteen to the
| thousand. Considering that half its popu-
lation is colored, and that the colored
death-rate is half greater than the white in
| all the South, suppose the ordinary death
rate In Mississippi is not above ten in the
| thousand, little more than one-third the
death-rate of New York city.
In the letters that / have received there
| is frequent mention of malaria, and a
| Wholesome dread is evinced of the mys-
terious thing about which the faculty
| knows SO little.
| l suppose there is more of 1t, whatever
it is, in New York City in a week than in
| Mississippi in a year. At least / hear
more of its performances during the weeks
visit in New York than in twelve months
at home.
| The figures / give above are from the
Census Bureau Department of Agriculture
in Washington.
My own experience, and that of men
who have come fl om the North to Missis-
| sippi, is that it is a rarely healthy climate
and country, and that ter delicate people,
delicate in lung or throat with catarrhal
or bronchial troubles, it is home of health
and comfort. AS to malaria, that is to be
more dreaded in q week on the Hudson
than in all our borders in life time.
| can from full knowledge and examIna.
ton, and with full responsibility, say that
in summer or winter, in spring or fall
there need be no hesitation, on account o.
health in coming to Mississippi, and thai
the delicate ard non-robust are likely tt
find here just the balmy temperate climate
which will enable them TO live and work
with comparative ease.
HUGH MILLER THOMPSON.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16
The Railroad Commission in South
Carolina.

The eighth annual report of the South
Carolina Railroad Commission shows
that during the year ending November
Is, 1886, there had been constructed in
that State 1878 miles of new railroad
and that eight ner lines have been pro-
jected, of which six are now in active
course of construction. In proportion
to its territory, South Carolina is in the
lead of all the other Southern States in
the matter of railroad construction the
past year. The net income of all the
roads for the year ending June 80, 1886,
was $2,047 1851, which is an increase
over the net earnings of the previous
year of $45, 12499.
How do these figures answer the as
sertion that railroad commission keeps
capital out of State?
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

The Philadelphia American, an out
and out protection paper, in an article
discussing "the excess revenue" come
to the conclusion that the schief cut
should be on sugar; on the ground that
the sugar duty is protective and not a
revenue duty. We quote its language:
Proposing to make the chief cut by
abolishing the sugar duty, we rest that
upon the great fact that this duty is not,
In the light of our experience for thirty
years, protective duty. On the contrary.
it has been and is revenue tax. We
know of no Protectionist principle that
now justifes its maintenance. Neither
crushing the cane industry of Louisiana,
nor quenching the hope of beet or sorghum
or corn sugar, there should be true and a
suitable protection offered all these, but
the present duty, with its enormous reve-
nue., is unjustifable under existing cir
cumstances.
In this view of the case how ridicu-
lous is the attitude of the Louisiana
sugar growerl
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16
Death of Bishop Green.


News of the death of the Right Rev.
William Mercer Green, Bishop of the
Episcopal diocese of Mississippi, which
was received in this city Monday, was
unexpected, though it was known that
for several years past his life has been
struggle against the natural decay of
his physical powers.
Bishop Green was born in Whining
ton, N. c., the I'd of May, 1898. He
graduated at the University of North
Carolina the 10th of April, 1918. He
received the degree of Doctor of Divinity
from the University of Pennsylvania,
1915; was ordained deacon in Christ
Church, Raleigh, n. c., 2eth of April.
1921, by Bishop Richard Charming
Moore; ordained priest in st. james
Church, Wilmington, n. c., Goth of
April, 1923, by the same prelate. He
was rector of st. Johns Church, Viii
liamsboro, n. c., four years, and of st.
Matthews Church, Tillsboro, ten years.
In 1887 he became professor of bellies
lettres and rhetoric in the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, retaining
that position until February "a, 1850,
when he was consecrated bishop of Mis-
sissippi in st. Andrews Church, Jack
son, Miss. Bishop Otey was the conse-
Grating bishop, assisted by Bishop Polk,
of Louisiana, and others. Had Bishop
Green lived until the Oath of this month
his episcopate would have reached thir.
ty-seven years. He was one of the
founders of the university of the
South" at Sewanee, Tenn, where he
has resided since the war, except when
engaged in making his Episcopal vista
tions. He was the Chancellor of the
University and had held the position
since 1866. During the latter years OF
his life he has been assisted in the per-
Torrance of his pastoral duties by the
Right Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, who
under the canons of the church will
succeed to the Bishopric.
1t is probable that Bishop Green knew
more Mississippians than any other citi
zen of the State. For nearly forty years
he had mingled with them, the duties
of his holy Office carrying him to the
firesides of many families. He was moi
a great man, if he be judged by tn,
measure of his intellect, but he was {
Christian, devout, sincere and pure, anc
did whatever fell to his lot for the glory
of that God whose chosen ambassador
he firmly believed himself to be.
The social graces of Bishop Greer
were charming. He was a perfect ex
ample of the refined and cultured gen
tlemaD, and this it was that enabled
him, devoted as he was to his church
and its dogmas, to number among hi
personal friends so many belonging t.
other denominations of Christians.
His remains will be brought to thi
city for interment, the funeral ceremo
MES being held at St. Andrews Churcl
tomorrow at one o'clock.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

We are in receipt of the first number
of the Mississippi Valley Farmer, pub
lished at Memphis by Messrs. Battaile
and Marshall. 1t is handsome month
~ Of some thirty and more pages, de-
voted, as its name implies, mainly to
the interests of agriculture. The most
surprising feature of the Farmer is its
price-Sl.eo year-is we are to Judge
from the copy before us. We suppose
that the publishers count on a large
subscription list in the Gulf and VALLEY
States, and this they ought to have.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16
Of Interest to Mexican Pensioners


1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-The Commits.
sioner OF Pensions has had prepared q lei.
ter OF instruction and blank forms of an
Pilcatlon and afidavits Of witnesses for the
use OF applicants for pensions under the
Mexican pension law Of January 20, 1887.
These blanks, he thinks, viii facilitate the
business OF his Office and enable applicants
20 have their rights promptly adjusted
without unnecessary correspondence.
trouble or expense. The Commissioner
expects to have the blanks printed and
ready Tor use on Wednesday next. Feb.
70: He invites direct application to his
once ~ expectant pensioners. Upon re-
Hcelpt OF an individual application, an APP
blanks will be forwarded to the apnlicans-
The letters Of instruction are full and ex
pl1clt and the blank forms plain, and ali
may 6e easlIy understood without the
neossgity Of Z legal adviser.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

The Hon. Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor
of the New York World, had personal
encounter with Joe Howard, the we'll
known newspaper writer, the other day
and knocked him down in the FIRST
round. Howard did not come up smil-
ing, which is strictly in accordance with
the customs of the prize ring, but he
came up fighting mad and anxious for
the second round. Colonel Cockrell and
another editor interfered and prevented
further hostilities.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

Until further notice, The CLARION will
advertise all real estate that may be offered
for sale in Mississippi, at the rate OF $i.00
per month per square-say so words or
less. Cash should accompany the order
for insertion. There is a great deal of in
quiry Just nov about lands, and many are
being purchased, 80 that this is good time
for putting them on the market.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16
Hon. & Barksdale on the Rejection
of Matthew's.
Washington Start

" -<--< o VIZ N~e<sts
Mr.. Barksdale said yesterday, speak
ing of the Matthews case, to Star re-
porter: THE Senate did right to reject
the appointment of Matthews. It was
following the bad example which had
been set in appointing Fred Douglass /;
but 1t was worse, because Matthews was
nonresident Of the District. The APP
posntment il not regarded with favor IN
the South. The whites do net think Il
WAS fit to have been made, and 1t does
not conciliate the colored element
ut viii be recollected that Matthews
is the colored man from New York who
was appointed Recorder Of Deeds for
the District Of Columbia, an ofIice which
yields about SIC. 900 year to the in
cumbent. Besides being non-residens,
Matthews Is an advocate Of mixed
schools and social equality generslly.)
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

AFTER protracted illness, Mr.. S. III
Stsckhouse died at Crystal Springs, on
Sunday morning last. He was for sew
eral years connected with the press OF
his county, and was highly esteemed
by all the members of the State Press
Association. He was pioneer in the
cultivation of fruits and vegetables for
distant markets. For several years he
has been the Secretary of the Mississippi
State Horticultural Society.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

THE New Orleans Christian Advocate,
regular and welcome visitor to THE
CLARION, has donned new dress, con-
corning which the editor thus dis
courses:
The New Orleans Christian Advocate
had travelled so long a journey over such
rough roads and through so many
thorny thickets that her garments had
become battered and torn" and her
shoes "clouted upon her feet" and she
stood so "all forlorn" among the other
handsomely appareled landmarks of the
church, that the enterprising publisher
took pity upon her and has put upon
her these comedy robes in which she to-
day presents herself to the view of her
friends. just as young girl, when she
dons new, close-ftting dress, frisks
about and wheels around and poses
gracefully to attract attention; SO this
stately maiden of thirty-six years, hav.
ing smoothed out the wrinkles of care
and suffused the pale cheeks with some
| mysterious article from her toilet stand,
steps out to-day before an audience of
5000 people, arrayed in garments of
beauty" and each movement of limb,
each glance of the eye is coy and fur.
tive endeavor to provoke an approving
appreciation, and her "airs in dress and
gait" translated into language, say
Behold, how beautiful and becoming is
my new suit"
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

1T is announced that in lectur,
at Meridian Bishop Galloway "spok,
strongly against the proposed thirt
party movement in this State in the in
terest of Prohibition, and deprecate,
the move to make Prohibition politi
cal question" Would that all Prohibi
tionists were as wise and as conserva tiv,
as the distinguished bishop.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

The Senate Committee on Claims has
reported adversely on the claim of John
l.. Lake, Jr., late proprietor of the
Times and Republican of this city, for
Sl001.22, alleged to be due for adver-
Using for proposals for carrying the
mails in 1875 and 1876.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

If such results can be attained in
smaller towns, we can see no reason
why jackson should not build its own
waterworks. Anyhow it is worth think
ing about, as the question viii doubtless
be submitted for determination as soon
as we can get another Legislature to-
gether.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16
GEO. P. WERNER, ct ALL
MARY ". WERNER.

Appeal from the Chancery Court Of
Monroe county. Hon. Baxter Nc
Farland, Chancellor.
Sykes & Bristow, for the appellant.
Houston & Reynolds, for the appellee.
Mary ". Werner fled this bin IN
equity against George p. Werner and
Charles II. Werner. The bill after set-
ting out compliments marriage with
George +. Werner and his desertion Of
her, charges that he has prstendedly
sold all of his property to his brother
Charles FL Werner; that the conveyance
was = fraudulent scheme of the two
defendants TO prevent her from obtain.
ing aljmony. The bill prays that ALI
mony be granted her ont Of the 1870
Of Geo. T. Werner ald that the deed 81
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

In the House of Commons, on the
11tb, ParnelPs amendment to the adj
dress in reply to the Queens speech was
rejected by vote of 352 to 246. The
Government has still majority of
I06
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

Mr. GEO. ]. GoscHES, Chancellor of
the Exchequer in the British Ministry,
who recently failed of reelection to Par
lament, has since been elected member
for st. George, Hanover Square.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

The Masonic Hall and theatre, the
Globe Hotel and several stores at Au-
gusta, Ga, were burned the 18th inst.
Mrs. ID. P. Bowers and her company lost
their travelling property and wardrobe
valued at $4,000. The fire was discov-
cred soon after the conclusion of mat
inee performances.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16
Waterworks.

The AUdlanche thinks that Memphis
could build waterworks which would, at
least, be self-sustaining, and in support
of its opinion prints the following show
ing from official reports of the annual
net profits of waterworks in some of the
cities of the United States:
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

DUCK Hill appears to be on real
estate boom-the result of recent discov-
cries of iron ores in that vicinity. We
received yesterday quite a large order
from there for warranty deed blanks
the transfers in real estate being so brisk
that they cannot be written out fast
enough.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16


The Ashland Chronicle is the latest
addition to Mississippi newspapers
Mr.. b. p. Rees, publisher. We do not
know who it is, but somebody about the
Chronicle Office has seen service on the
tripod before now.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

The Mississippi Mineral and Mining
Company has been organized at Duck
Hill to develop the rich iron ore mines
that lie in that vicinity. A genuine
Alabama boom has come to the village
and real estate is changing hands at
rapidly increasing prices. May the good
work continue.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16
SUPREME COURT CASES
Reported for The Clarion BY w. r.. Harper
Attorney st-Law, Jackson, Miss.
October Term-I8S6.
JESSE WALTON,

JESSE WALTON,
V.
The STATE.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pamela
county. Hon. A. I. Roane, Judge.
Miller & Rainwater, for the appellant
T. NJ. Miller, Attorney General, fol
the State.
Jesse Walton was indicted, tried and
convicted in Pamela county. The indict-
ment on which he was convicted was in
these words: That Jesse Walton "did
unlawfully in public place, to-wit: ON
the streets of the town of Sardis and in
the presence of two persons, profanely
curse and swear. Contrary to the form
of the statute in such case made and
provided" The words used were no
where set out. There was a motion to
quash the indictment for that reason,
and it was overruled. The defendant
appealed to this court,
COOPER, C. J., delivered the opinion of
the Court.
The motion to quash the indictment
should have been sustained. The words
spoken constituted the gist of the ofense,
and should have been set out in the in
dictment. Bishop on Grim. Proc. 123;
l Wharf. on Grim. Law, 351; Steuer VS..
The State, so Wis, 472
Judgment reversed and indictment
quashed.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

THE De Funiak Convention, which
was originated as scheme to make raid
on the national treasury, under the pre-
tended belief that it was the duty of
the Government to make the sea-coast
villages impregnable against the attack
of the world, must have been a one
horse affair, judging from the meagre
accounts Of its proceedings which were
published in the papers which advocat-
ed its assembling. The people are tired
of being humbugged.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

The New Orleans Christian AdUocdte
has celebrated its tbirty-sixth birthday
by appearing in a new and very bright
Dress 1t richly deserves its steadily in
creasing prosperity.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

WITHIN the week iron ore has been
discovered in Tippah ond Warren coun.
ties, and gentleman says he know
where there is bed of it within mile
and half of the Capital. Next.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

THE Senate bill to retire the trade
dollar has passed both Houses. Trade
dollars, therefore, are now worth as
much as any other sort Of dollars.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-16

IT is said that John Wanamaker, the
Philadelphia merchant, paid more than
10000 for Munkacsy's picture of Christ
before Plate.